An hour into the match, Ruan Chen and Fu Jianzhi became the focus of attention for those watching the live broadcast from outside the venue.
Nan Jing was already used to these young people's tricks and didn't bother to switch the surveillance camera to the screen directly in front of the two of them to see what they were doing.
Ruan Chen glanced up casually, wanting to check on the screen to see if her progress matched the estimate. The moment she saw the screen, she frowned.
Everyone else's progress bar was already halfway through, but she and Fu Jianzhi were almost completely still, which was very noticeable.
Ruan Chen glanced at the code on the side of Fu Jianzhi's computer host and entered a few commands on his own machine.
Fu Jianzhi received an invitation to initiate a communication.
【Is this interesting?】 This question came from Ruan Chen and was sent using code.
Fu Jianzhi replied in code: 【Coincidentally.】
You know I don't like trouble.
Don't worry, sister, I won't cause you any trouble.
Ruan Chen ignored him and closed the window for sending the code.
Li Xiaorui's grades had always been decent, consistently ranking in the top ten. She tossed her hair with a touch of pride, then looked at Ruan Chen's unmoving progress bar, pondering whether she could find a way to confirm Ruan Chen's cheating and expel her from the hospital.
Two and a half hours into the match, Ruan Chen's progress bar finally started moving.
At this stage, most people are stuck between 70% and 80% of their progress and find it difficult to move forward, which is also the difficulty set by the organizers.
Ruan Chen's progress bar first quietly caught up with the vast majority of people, and then steadily advanced, gradually taking the lead.
Li Xiaorui was racking her brains trying to figure out how to improve it when she suddenly saw a name slowly but steadily rising below, gradually approaching Li Xiaorui's ranking and then surpassing her.
That's Ruan Chen.
That's not all.
Following behind Ruan Chen was Fu Jianzhi. The two seemed to have a tacit understanding; they had both been at the bottom earlier, but now they were simultaneously exerting their strength, one after the other, heading towards the front.
Many people watching the live stream from outside the venue were completely captivated, switching to the camera angle behind Ruan Chen and Fu Jianzhi to see how the two managed to do it.
Nan Jing sneered, "Young people really love to play games."
With three minutes left in the competition, Ruan Chen and Fu Jianzhi's names were in the top two positions, one after the other, and Ruan Chen's progress had actually reached 99%.
Li Xiaorui was so angry she almost smashed the keyboard, watching helplessly as the two names were placed side by side.
She painstakingly edited her data, but aside from causing her ranking to drop two places, she made no progress whatsoever.
Bo Nian, one of the proctors, also noticed the couple's commotion. He looked at Ruan Chen, then at Fu Jianzhi, and a helpless bitter smile appeared on his lips.
All these years have passed, and he and she are still so close.
In the examination room, a mechanical countdown timer sounded, "The exam is about to end. Ten, nine, eight..."
Almost all the candidates stopped what they were doing and looked up at the screen.
Most people's attention was focused on the two names that ranked first—Ruan Chen and Fu Jianzhi.
The progress is 99%.
Fu Jianzhi, who came in second, was three seconds late in reaching 99% of the progress, so he was relegated to second place.
Many people felt sorry for Fu Jianzhi, because it was only a three-second difference. But no one knew that Fu Jianzhi was actually keeping up with Ruan Chen's pace. In other words, he had an incredibly precise control over the model's running speed.
With only five seconds left on the countdown, Fu Jianzhi glanced at Ruan Chen slightly, and then, following Ruan Chen's actions, issued the final instruction in the program.
The next second, Fu Jianzhi's progress reached 100%.
Both inside and outside the examination hall, everyone who was following the competition exclaimed in surprise.
These exclamations weren't for Fu Jianzhi, but for Ruan Chen.
The progress bar, which was at the top of the list at 99%, suddenly reversed. Ruan Chen's name plummeted. When the countdown reached its last second, the progress bar next to her name, representing her score, cleared to zero, and Ruan Chen's name fell to the very bottom, leaving only Fu Jianzhi's name hanging alone at the top.
Fu Jianzhi's eyes instantly darkened as he stared at the screen.
This is Ruan Chen's attitude.
She would rather have all her efforts go to waste, rather fall to the bottom, than stand shoulder to shoulder with his name.
Nan Jing: ...Young people really know how to have fun; they've turned a competition into something amazing.
Bo Nian, however, gleaned something else from the changes in Ruan Chen and Fu Jianzhi's rankings. He frowned thoughtfully and asked a colleague who was proctoring the exam, "Old Shen, where can we watch the replay of the competition?"
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"Doesn't that prove she cheated?" Li Xiaorui exclaimed excitedly, gesturing wildly to her classmates. "She definitely tampered with the competition system to get first place, but at the last moment, the system discovered the bug and reset her score to zero!"
She was very satisfied with her explanation.
We can kick Ruan Chen out soon, which will not only embarrass my cousin Leng Yueqiu, but also let President Fu see her true colors as her childhood sweetheart.
Then she discovered that her classmates, who used to gossip about Ruan Chen behind her back, were now looking at her like she was an idiot.
Yan Bin, being foolish and rich, couldn't bear it and kindly reminded Li Xiaorui, "Xiaorui, our competition system is a military system. If Ruan Chen has the ability to manipulate things, even if the system discovers it and removes her score in the end, it just proves that her ability is terrifyingly strong."
"But if that's the case, then she's cheating!"
"But if that's the case, do you think it matters whether she cheated or not? The military needs talent like that." Yan Bin helplessly shrugged, then kindly added, "Xiao Rui, you should probably get rid of this love-struck brain of yours. President Fu might not even be interested in you. And yet you're always arguing here..."
Yan Bin is indeed a fool with too much money; he speaks without thinking and without considering the consequences.
He practically pointed his finger at Li Xiaorui and uttered the words "female rival" and "simp."
The surrounding classmates chuckled softly. Just then, the class bell rang, and Ruan Chen and Fu Jianzhi entered one after the other.
For some reason, Li Xiaorui stretched out her foot to trip Ruan Chen after Fu Jianzhi went in and sat down.
“If I were you, I wouldn’t do that,” Fu Jianzhi said quietly. “My sister is ruthless. You’re lucky to have met Ruan Chen version 2.0. If it were version 1.0, you would have been slapped across the face the very first day you crossed her.”
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